So, NLB, what are you saying: is my link defective, but the site still has the link up on the page with Mere Christianity and Problem of Pain? Does my link give an error message? What is it? Could you send me the correct link, if mine's in error? (Obviously it worked for me at home.)

My favorite book ever! I found my grandmother's copy in a box one day and read it in two nights. Not only was the book completely fantastic (and very provoking; challenging me to consider things about God and sin I had never considered before), but I also got to read my grandmother's notations and underlined bits. I hate when books are written in, but in this instance, it was really good.

Without trying to derail this, Zootradio has a huge collection of those old time radio shows, for free. It's not the most easily navigated site, but there's nothing quite like turning off all the lights and listening to those old mysteries.

"Yep: you wonder, don't you, about these actors who read wonderful lines and wonderful books and apparently don't absorb a punctuation-mark of it.

But it will still count before the Throne."

I always take a moment to pray for them whenever I've watched something in that genre - Anthony Hopkins who played Lewis in Shadwolands, and especially Albert Brooks playing Newton in Amazing Grace. Any actor with even a bit of background in method acting would have spent some time reading all they could on their character's background and "motivation." Re: counting before the Throne - my prayer is always that God will hound them with the memory of the words they spoke in this life, so that they are saved, rather than be hounded by them as they suffer eternal punishment in the next.

Such a great resource, and on laundry day too, when I'm constantly in need of a renewed mind as my Sunday worship high runs smack into the downer of giant piles of whites and coloreds....

I was just in Israel (which will probably be the intro to my every comment for the next few months), and was thinking about something similar to the Cleese conversion issue. The tour guides have to study the Bible for their job, including the New Testament (our guide told us the first time he heard about Jesus was in the tour guide class - they apparently don't even acknowledge the NT as history). Some come to faith because of it. But others read the scriptures all the time, day after day visiting the sites and talking about Jesus, even coming to believe that he actually did what the Bible says he did - and still never come to faith.

It's sad that someone can be so close to the truth - really, how much closer can you get? - and never embrace it. But it truly highlights the depth of our sin, and how helpless we are to believe on our own. Without God making us alive, there is no amount of evidence that will ever convince us.

So if you're in Christ, take a moment and thank God again, because we sure didn't figure it out on our own. Then take a moment and pray for Cleese, while you're at it.

I still have it on cassette tape and we listen to it in the car. It may well be very useful to have it in digital format :)

I always remember the confusion I had when I read a damning review of CS Lewis that suggested the reason they knew he wasn't really a Christian was because The Screwtape Letters proves that he had been communing with devils, because he'd written a book all about how to tempt a Christian away from faith.

radio drama is one of the greatest loves of my life. (I have no wife.) You have no idea what a boon you've granted me with this link. I'll have to send you a copy of "B.S.I. Pittsburgh", the radio drama we (Bible Burgh) did based on the show "C.S.I. Miami".

He has until his last breath as far as I understand. Don't underestimate the POWER in The Word of GOD. And NO I am NOT talking about the "words" in Screwtape Letters. All Cleese has to do is open The Bible... read... and come to accept Jesus as his savior before his last breath.* steps up onto the scale to be weighed as a witch, ready to be dunked or burnt. *